so i want to build a 3d cube and animate it spinning around and transforming into other interesting 3d shapes, molecular structures and geometric intricacies, and then use the animations of it spinning around as the base of a 3d file browser system for my computer.
i have the feeling i may have lost some of you right there, let me explain:
there's this firefox extension that allows you to replace your navigation, bookmarks, and history toolbars with a floating contextual menu that appears wherever you click you mouse. so your entire screen is what you're looking at. its really cool. i just want to make mine out of a cool floating rotating transforming 3d object with actual buttons rendered out that you can push and cool little bits and pieces. you love the cool little bits and pieces, do you not?
oh yeah, and flashy glowy parts too and stars and planets and maybe tiny little colonies of robots that feed on your internets. it could also read your to do list and program usage and could react in a way kinda like thing does. or would have, if the stupid people didn't vote it out of the competition. computers are not for cooking.
then i wanna do like all sorts of like natural shapes too like really intricate little flowers and plant fractals। and other such strange and nifty ideas like that to sell to the kiddies? you know you want one.
the only problem is i am only half of the team that will create this.
in other news, i'm looking for a sidekick!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Vegans
now, i dont have much interaction, nor have i ever, with vegans. so i considered it daunting to write an entry about them from the get go. naturally i had to do a little reading and such to paint a picture for myself of these people who call themselves a word so closely resembling "vagina". now that i have the immaturity stamp out of the way i can start.
without letting it be tainted, my initial impressions.
i find the idea behind being animal product free both noble and ridiculous. first i see where theyre coming from. as humans were exhausting the natural resources and killing off millions of animals without much thought. so it seems only natural to protect them. that cant be it, right? no. i also agree that at times it seems cruel to breed and kill animals simply for us to waste alot of them and to consume the rest. the practices involved and the conditions towards the animals seems in and of itself, animalistic at times. we seem vicious in this respect but thats pleading in the vegan case.
at the same time, the protein in meats, red meats, is what slowly helped grow our minds. now from here i could spiral into an evolutionary debate but as we all know most people are stubborn and thats a fight noone will win. the "unneccesary" slaughter of animals is really what helped kickstart our progression into intelligent, cognizant beings. look at what weve accomplished because we figured out that we can actually eat animals, and used their skins and bones to help aide our survival. a tip of the hat is deserved, much thanks animals. but as i said these are my initial impressions.
a little reading has showed me. these vegans believe in equality for all beings. in using soy beans and other alternative "plant based" foods as supplements. but the lack of meat has cause vitamin deficiencies, if following a poorly planned vegan diet. this can lead to neurological disorders in children lacking the b12 vitamin absent from many vegan diets.
now i take a road ill traveled. vegan mothers are five times more likely to have twins than mothers with an average diet.
i see the big picture now. its fuckin world domination! herbivore bastards.
ok, ok so i mean in light heartedly. literally, joking.
i thought reading and writing about vegans would help me develope some sort of an opinion, and im sorry to say to my counterpart, that i am completely and 100% neutral. which makes for a boring entry. but i guess up to this point youre probably thinking, "fuck it, ill just finish the damn thing and get a moon pie". well, let me tell you about thermo nuclear physics(i dont think thermo and nuclear go together). anyway.
you eat your plants and you be avid about it vegans. ill support you in your choice. you find it ethical, i do to a lesser extent as well. just dont give me shit for eating wilbur.
i think its time for a hamburger...or maybe an entire whale.
without letting it be tainted, my initial impressions.
i find the idea behind being animal product free both noble and ridiculous. first i see where theyre coming from. as humans were exhausting the natural resources and killing off millions of animals without much thought. so it seems only natural to protect them. that cant be it, right? no. i also agree that at times it seems cruel to breed and kill animals simply for us to waste alot of them and to consume the rest. the practices involved and the conditions towards the animals seems in and of itself, animalistic at times. we seem vicious in this respect but thats pleading in the vegan case.
at the same time, the protein in meats, red meats, is what slowly helped grow our minds. now from here i could spiral into an evolutionary debate but as we all know most people are stubborn and thats a fight noone will win. the "unneccesary" slaughter of animals is really what helped kickstart our progression into intelligent, cognizant beings. look at what weve accomplished because we figured out that we can actually eat animals, and used their skins and bones to help aide our survival. a tip of the hat is deserved, much thanks animals. but as i said these are my initial impressions.
a little reading has showed me. these vegans believe in equality for all beings. in using soy beans and other alternative "plant based" foods as supplements. but the lack of meat has cause vitamin deficiencies, if following a poorly planned vegan diet. this can lead to neurological disorders in children lacking the b12 vitamin absent from many vegan diets.
now i take a road ill traveled. vegan mothers are five times more likely to have twins than mothers with an average diet.
i see the big picture now. its fuckin world domination! herbivore bastards.
ok, ok so i mean in light heartedly. literally, joking.
i thought reading and writing about vegans would help me develope some sort of an opinion, and im sorry to say to my counterpart, that i am completely and 100% neutral. which makes for a boring entry. but i guess up to this point youre probably thinking, "fuck it, ill just finish the damn thing and get a moon pie". well, let me tell you about thermo nuclear physics(i dont think thermo and nuclear go together). anyway.
you eat your plants and you be avid about it vegans. ill support you in your choice. you find it ethical, i do to a lesser extent as well. just dont give me shit for eating wilbur.
i think its time for a hamburger...or maybe an entire whale.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Dangerous Thinking
what if when you look to see who you really are, your hiding inbetween the lines, and your to afraid to look? what if you woke up one day and everyone was gone? would you be content to follow yourself, or would you ask yourself where they all went? would your heart be hollow or just sink altogether? what if every waking moment, is just a dream? you look in the mirror and you ask yourself. is this who i really want to be? this face, this mind, these beliefs. are my gods, my demons, my life real? if everything is set exactly where its supposed to be will you really know that its perfect? will you still fall into your own depression or keep searching for everyone that left without you?
is this entire world in my head? a fabrication of my imagination? do i have a say in anything?
can i pull myself out of a hole i never asked to be in?
you thought you knew where and who you were. then you wake up.
both the living and the dead make it seem as if the entire world is a cage. but what side are you really on?
what if you could change it all?
would you mask everything in your views of perfection?
would you leave it the same?
can just keep your head above long enough to smile, and be content with not being in control?
or will you let go with a sense of never knowing what you could have done to make it any better...and hate yourself for it?
what if you just let the static of everyday in and live in the muffled silence, could you get used to conceding to that?
live in the unknown, open your eyes but look away from the truth
its only there to hurt you. the words of a pessimist, maybe.
everything you used to know slips away everyday, an elaborate canvas painted in running colors.
let yourself melt away with them.
is this entire world in my head? a fabrication of my imagination? do i have a say in anything?
can i pull myself out of a hole i never asked to be in?
you thought you knew where and who you were. then you wake up.
both the living and the dead make it seem as if the entire world is a cage. but what side are you really on?
what if you could change it all?
would you mask everything in your views of perfection?
would you leave it the same?
can just keep your head above long enough to smile, and be content with not being in control?
or will you let go with a sense of never knowing what you could have done to make it any better...and hate yourself for it?
what if you just let the static of everyday in and live in the muffled silence, could you get used to conceding to that?
live in the unknown, open your eyes but look away from the truth
its only there to hurt you. the words of a pessimist, maybe.
everything you used to know slips away everyday, an elaborate canvas painted in running colors.
let yourself melt away with them.
Monday, July 9, 2007
pointy teeth
i don't understand vegans.
that's a lie.
i don't agree with vegans. yeah i know that the meat industry is bad, whatever. stop complaining and call your congressman. the simple fact of the matter is that veganism is a product of humans thinking they're above the rest of the animal kingdom.
ever met a polar bear before?
how about a moose, they're not even a predator and they still kill a good number of people every year in anchorage. they can derail trains too.
but now onto dentistry! go look in your mouth. no i'm serious go into your bathroom and look at your teeth in the mirror. floss while you're at it too. see those flat teeth way in the back? the flat ones? those are your vegan teeth. see those pointy ones up near the front? those are the meat shredding teeth. this makes humans...
ding ding ding! Omnivores!
now take a good look at your colon. ok just kidding, i'll just tell you about it. a good part of it is designed to do nothing more than absorb protein from the masticated flesh of all God's creatures. indeed it was a high intake of God's creatures combined with the awesome power of fire that allowed cavemen to grow brains large enough that we could conceive ideas such as veganism. so don't take it for granted.
not only that, wikipedia says that
"The American Dietetic Association has said that "appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases."[56] Poorly planned vegan diets, however, increase the risk of deficiency in nutrients such as vitamin B12,[61] vitamin D,[62] calcium,[63] [62] iodine[64] and omega-3 fatty acids.[65] These deficiencies have potential consequences, including anemia,[66] rickets[67] and cretinism[68] in children, and osteomalacia[67] and hyperthyroidism[68] in adults."
cretinism? i don't wanna become a cretin.
so if you don't get your vitimins (say it how its spelled) from animals you can just get them from pills, but then again you could just eat nothing but meat and get all your plant vitamins from pills too. in the future all our food will be squirted out of a tube anyway. there will come a day when some people don't know what real food is. i say let's do what we can to enjoy food that requires chewing while we're still able
that's a lie.
i don't agree with vegans. yeah i know that the meat industry is bad, whatever. stop complaining and call your congressman. the simple fact of the matter is that veganism is a product of humans thinking they're above the rest of the animal kingdom.
ever met a polar bear before?
how about a moose, they're not even a predator and they still kill a good number of people every year in anchorage. they can derail trains too.
but now onto dentistry! go look in your mouth. no i'm serious go into your bathroom and look at your teeth in the mirror. floss while you're at it too. see those flat teeth way in the back? the flat ones? those are your vegan teeth. see those pointy ones up near the front? those are the meat shredding teeth. this makes humans...
ding ding ding! Omnivores!
now take a good look at your colon. ok just kidding, i'll just tell you about it. a good part of it is designed to do nothing more than absorb protein from the masticated flesh of all God's creatures. indeed it was a high intake of God's creatures combined with the awesome power of fire that allowed cavemen to grow brains large enough that we could conceive ideas such as veganism. so don't take it for granted.
not only that, wikipedia says that
"The American Dietetic Association has said that "appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases."[56] Poorly planned vegan diets, however, increase the risk of deficiency in nutrients such as vitamin B12,[61] vitamin D,[62] calcium,[63] [62] iodine[64] and omega-3 fatty acids.[65] These deficiencies have potential consequences, including anemia,[66] rickets[67] and cretinism[68] in children, and osteomalacia[67] and hyperthyroidism[68] in adults."
cretinism? i don't wanna become a cretin.
so if you don't get your vitimins (say it how its spelled) from animals you can just get them from pills, but then again you could just eat nothing but meat and get all your plant vitamins from pills too. in the future all our food will be squirted out of a tube anyway. there will come a day when some people don't know what real food is. i say let's do what we can to enjoy food that requires chewing while we're still able
Friday, July 6, 2007
bread wars
so next week is bread wars 2007. that means that next saturday all the employees of your local village baker are gonna come in on their day off and compete for the title of ultimate bread warrior. instead of a company bbq we all get together and try to show up each other in various tests of bakerism. builds connections, that sort of thing.
bread wars consists of completing various tasks and earning points for superiority, kinda like a ranking system. one event is moving five 40 lb bags of flower from the oven area to the bread forming table with the big wooden bread spear spatula thingy that you move things in the oven with. fastest time wins. another is the prettiest loaf contest where you have to, well, make an extremely pretty loaf of bread. the bosses wife judges that one. there's also a quiz show part where we have to answer random questions like how many months pregnant the bosses wife is or name all of the specialty breads. the ciabatta toss and timed slicing are where i hope to gain some points, i'm not sure about the other baking things tho.
oh there's also the extreme mopping, where you choose a 6x6 patch of floor anywhere in the bakery and clean it as fast as you can. you get to choose because if you choose a dirtier area you can barter with the big boss man to get time removed from your final time since you chose a dirtier area. it's a lot like poker.
why do we do this you ask, well the winner gets a fifty cent raise for 6 months or until you don't work there anymore. whichever happens first. during this time, any other employee can challenge you for the title in any one event. if they win they get the raise for the remainder of the 6 months, if they lose they lose ten cents of pay an hour for a month and the winner gets ten cents more for a month. so only challenge someone if you know you're gonna win or if you just don't care.
also, if the boss wins the grand champion spot we all have to come in on the following saturday and clean the store like we're selling it on ebay, without being paid. so we have some motivation to be better than our boss. he wants to get his store cleaned too, otherwise he has to pay us to do that twice a year or so. it also gives us a reason to actually try and make an event out of it, shit is at stake here.
if you're around next saturday stop by and cheer me on. i think there's free bread somewhere.
p.s. i made this all up.
bread wars consists of completing various tasks and earning points for superiority, kinda like a ranking system. one event is moving five 40 lb bags of flower from the oven area to the bread forming table with the big wooden bread spear spatula thingy that you move things in the oven with. fastest time wins. another is the prettiest loaf contest where you have to, well, make an extremely pretty loaf of bread. the bosses wife judges that one. there's also a quiz show part where we have to answer random questions like how many months pregnant the bosses wife is or name all of the specialty breads. the ciabatta toss and timed slicing are where i hope to gain some points, i'm not sure about the other baking things tho.
oh there's also the extreme mopping, where you choose a 6x6 patch of floor anywhere in the bakery and clean it as fast as you can. you get to choose because if you choose a dirtier area you can barter with the big boss man to get time removed from your final time since you chose a dirtier area. it's a lot like poker.
why do we do this you ask, well the winner gets a fifty cent raise for 6 months or until you don't work there anymore. whichever happens first. during this time, any other employee can challenge you for the title in any one event. if they win they get the raise for the remainder of the 6 months, if they lose they lose ten cents of pay an hour for a month and the winner gets ten cents more for a month. so only challenge someone if you know you're gonna win or if you just don't care.
also, if the boss wins the grand champion spot we all have to come in on the following saturday and clean the store like we're selling it on ebay, without being paid. so we have some motivation to be better than our boss. he wants to get his store cleaned too, otherwise he has to pay us to do that twice a year or so. it also gives us a reason to actually try and make an event out of it, shit is at stake here.
if you're around next saturday stop by and cheer me on. i think there's free bread somewhere.
p.s. i made this all up.
walking backwards creates your zen.
your zen and your room makes it safe.
youre safe but youre slow.
youre slow but youre there.
the fireworks you say lay strewn.
but its planned and its nearly new.
its the 6th to your 5th and theyre both huge.
your tree smashes your streets.
that traffic is the green light in your house.
your house is deluxe.
the zen wrote it down.
over and said again.
again and again,
again sole slew said.
your zen and your room makes it safe.
youre safe but youre slow.
youre slow but youre there.
the fireworks you say lay strewn.
but its planned and its nearly new.
its the 6th to your 5th and theyre both huge.
your tree smashes your streets.
that traffic is the green light in your house.
your house is deluxe.
the zen wrote it down.
over and said again.
again and again,
again sole slew said.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
twas the fifth of july, and all through the town
the carcasses of fireworks littered the ground.
and in this town where the carcasses lay
fire spread all around and kept traffic at bay.
and into the street came out all the weasels
to chase the children, and give them,
you guessed it,
measles.
from weasels and measles to green little men
the green lights in the room added to the zen.
the zen cried sad and then he said come again
and again and again and again.
care of me and hayley.
the carcasses of fireworks littered the ground.
and in this town where the carcasses lay
fire spread all around and kept traffic at bay.
and into the street came out all the weasels
to chase the children, and give them,
you guessed it,
measles.
from weasels and measles to green little men
the green lights in the room added to the zen.
the zen cried sad and then he said come again
and again and again and again.
care of me and hayley.
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